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Chipotle Pilots New Responsible Restaurant Design Alongside Sustainability Campaign

Chipotle’s new restaurant design is all electric, aims to maximize energy efficiency and utilizes 100% renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from energy use at the restaurants where it’s implemented.

Newport Beach, Calif. — Chipotle Mexican Grill has unveiled a new all-electric restaurant design that works to maximize energy efficiency in its equipment and systems and utilizes 100% renewable energy from wind power and solar through the purchase of certified renewable energy credits. The company recently opened restaurants with the new features in Gloucester, Va., and Jacksonville, Fla., with a third location opening later this summer in Castle Rock, Colo.

The new restaurant design pilot will help Chipotle progress toward its science-based targets, established in alignment with Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), to reduce direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030 compared to a 2019 baseline.

The new restaurant design pilot will help Chipotle progress toward its science-based targets, established in alignment with Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), to reduce direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030 compared to a 2019 baseline.

With an aggressive development goal of eventually growing to 7,000 locations in North America, Chipotle will leverage its new restaurant openings to scale the company’s overall impact. Chipotle plans to have more than 100 of its new locations in 2024 utilize all-electric equipment and at least some additional elements from its new design. The company will continue to innovate and iterate on the new design as it gains operational feedback and insights.

Key features of Chipotle’s responsible restaurant design concept include:

“With our aggressive development goal in North America, we hold ourselves accountable to reduce the environmental impact of our restaurants,” says Laurie Schalow, chief corporate affairs officer at Chipotle. “We are aiming to incorporate some elements of our responsible restaurant design into many of our new restaurant openings going forward.”

Broader Environmental Initiatives

To help meet its goal of reducing direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions company-wide 50% by 2030 compared to a 2019 baseline, Chipotle is instituting various additional initiatives, including:

For images and video of Chipotle’s responsible restaurant design, please visit: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hpsvpc8ioyvf2zk/AADw-S1yucPLUqJyBuH36ZR5a?dl=0.

To learn more about sustainability at Chipotle and review the full report, please visit www.chipotle.com/sustainability.

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. had nearly 3,200 restaurants as of December 31, 2022, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany; it is the only restaurant company of its size that owns and operates all its restaurants. For more information, visit www.chipotle.com.

 

 

 

SOURCE: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.

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